On April 21, 2008 lights were again reported over Phoenix by local residents. These lights appeared to change from square to triangular formation over time.

It was also reported by a resident, that shortly after the lights appeared, three jets were seen heading west in the direction of the lights. An official from Luke Air Force Base denies any Air Force activity in the area.

On April 22, a resident of Phoenix told a newspaper that the lights were nothing more than his neighbor releasing helium balloons with flares attached. This was confirmed by a police helicopter. The following day a Phoenix resident -- who declined to be identified in news reports -- stated that he had attached flares to helium balloons and released them from his backyard.

To me, the flare story sounds like a cover up to quiet down the people. So no government agency cares that a civilian without any permits flies flares over such a fire prone area? The government uses the same story every time when there is a UFO sighting "It's a weather balloon, dont worry." Take the sighting in Roswell for example. Balloons, fishing line and some road flares. Simple and effective hoax.

More on
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phoenix_lights
http://www.azfamily.com/news/homepagetopst...s.895be60f.html

If you research weather ballons more the actually a sent up quite often so it possible. plus Wikipedia isn't a creditable source so i would try find an article about it on like a .org or.gov website.

I hope nothing is gonna go down over there because that is where my grandparents live.

It gets aggravating seeing how society has established "UFO" as synonymous with "aliens".

Most people think that UFO's generally mean Aliens. Its actually an Unidentified Flying Object.

Exactly.

I've seen some UFO's before. That doesn't mean there were aliens, but it's a possibility.

Never seen a UFO before, most flying objects I see, I know.

The only reason why people associate UFOs with aliens is because they are all paranoid.

I'm pretty sure that's not it. :ecksdee:

It's probably closer to the fact that the media portrays them that way.

And that is because they are paranoid.

No, it's not. It's because the media shows what the people want to see and what the big companies and the government tells them to.

Yes, and THAT makes the media paranoid.

It's pretty believable that there could be aliens out there (in space) seeing as it is endless and everything.

Yeah, that is very true as there could be aliens that haven't revealed themselves just yet and are waiting for the right moment.